Saving MR Banks :)

A way back to our childhood.
I´ve never seen a movie as touching as this one. I just came out of the cinema and had this gigantic need to write it rapidly, for fear I might forget something. It is full of meticulous mini details that embelish my heart(hahah sorry for this repellent expression, I just had to). I am completely over the moon. Marvelous Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson , as lovely as ever, totally complementing one another. Director John Lee Hancock couldn´t have chosen a better couple, they fit like a duck to water, I will come back to analize tactifully and specifically Emma Thompson's interpretation.  I am afraid to make a movie critic that demands the most delicate sensibility there is in the world, cause its a true story based on events. A story that took place in those incredible Disney Studios by the hand of the grand child entertainer Waltz Disney.

Its the story of  Ms Travers the writer of Mary Poppins, a woman who recreates her life without knowing it, in a book indirectly based on her life.
Who hasn´t watched as a kid Mary Poppins and laughted at those pinguins dancing ,or dreamed about seeing this peculiar nanny approaching your window with an umbrella.
Its a story she lived,a story so precious and private that I can understand it was the writers wish to leave it as it is. Her treasure trove, avoiding big productions to steal it from her. Everyone at some point in their lives has watched Dick Van Dyke dancing Chim Chim Cheer-ee. It´s the child we have inside our adult exterior, the child Ms Travers had decided to forget.

Saving Mr Banks sets the battle from Waltz since 20 years ago for the exclusive rights to Ms travers novel to make it a movie, because he had promised it to his daughter(and he´s a man who keeps his promises). So when Ms Travers finally comes to the Studio, mainly on a need not to her liking, Mr Disney puts all his effort in satisfying the particular needs of this writer.
The grumpy attitude of our character Ms Travers gets on the nerves of everyone of the Studio, making them remain quiet or else all the movie script will be over. It´s incredibly funny to see these concrete acts. We can see Waltz getting really Clingy on her trying to make her rebel an evasive attitude disappear.

 The story of Mary Poppins was written by Ms Travers at an adult age to alude a figure she once met in her childhood and was important to her past, and guided her to become the woman she has turned into. A figure who sew all her family together when everything was going wrong. All along she´d looked back to her memories with sadness and its the Sparkle of Watz Disney and its crew with its ridiculous lyrics, songs and colours which brings the beloved joyfull attitude back to Ms Travers. No one could give  a better ending for her father but Waltz himself. A caricature kind of man who looks on the bright side of life, and as the hard childhood he had, has grown up to put a smile on thousand of generations of kids all over the world.

I admire this Producer/Director/Scriptwriter/ animator who once stood up to a production company with his Mickey Mouse project.
And thank you,Ms Travers, for giving the rights to this movie and left it in the hands of Waltz, an incredible story and a necessity to be told your way. One of the first times Disney included real characters in her movie, and not cartoons.

Amazing set up, truly heartbreaking and real. Tears assured accompanied by laughter all along the movie (not the one you laugh alone in hidden disguise, the one where all the cinema joins you).
This movie will receive a spate of likes, I´m sure,and probably my guess for the Oscar is gonna be for Emma.

Finding Forrester

Sean Connery in Finding Forrester , ASTOUNDING...
a previous version of Le intouchable movie. To my opinion, same plot and same characters, wondering around their lives and finding friendship among each other. I know movies from the past tend  not to be ones plate for a lazy afternoon, but eventhough its less touching than the other,  it´s tenderly sweeter.

Every production media and parlour have gathered around Le intouchable movie because, at the end of the day, is a novel movie , born and with brand new characters, but let´s not forget about this same guideline plot that was launched in the year 2000.

Typical black boy from the Bronx, Jamal, who is very smart but ain´t got the  guts to show it  in public cause hes mates will think he´s a looser. Pristine exam records, but showing-off character , eitherways school ends up noticing him and proposing the entrance to a private school, more to his condition.

 As a kiddo of 16 years old he shows no interest but for basketball , being one of the best around the bronx rink. It all changes one day when as a bet with his friends sneaks into an old mans house, who happens to spy on them out of mere boredom through the window. Like couriosity killed the cat , he drops his backback  while sneaking into his flat and ends up knocking at his door to begin a conversation.

 Turns out that this old man called William Forrester( played by Sean Connery ) is no one else but a famous writer left in the shadows because of past hurtful events. This character intrigues us with a background, which he shows no intention of sharing until you get to the middle plot.

 An old man who doesn´t suffer fools easily.
When dropping his backpack William  peeps into Jamal´s assignments and ends up reading the boys journal. Furthermore, he discovers an immense potential hidden inside the boy´s unwilling desire to write. Jamal is clearly an on-the- ball type of kid.
William ends up assisting and showing this young writer the path into his world, the path into the world of words.

Every day, sharp after school ,Jamal joins William in a private personal scriptwriting class. What at first glance seems only productive for the kid himself, ends up enormously fulfilling to William.
Encouraging the kid to:

" Punch the keys for god´s sake "( to an old, perhaps, Olivety typewriter).
"Don´t think, just write"
"Writers Write so readers can read".
Such inspiring words, if we think too much, most of the things we want to say never exit our minds. If you´re meant to be a writer you must just set hands on your keyboard and start writing whatever nonesense pops out of your mind. There are uncountable readers, but only a close knit group who will like what you write. So write for those people, regardless of the others.

Back to the movie....
Jamal starts handing out impecable essays and one of his literature proffesor´s doesn´t buy it. So here comes the typical character you wanna punch the screen for. Meticulously doubting about the kid and making his life hell. Fascinated with his work , but unable to give him the credit because he himself was denied the publishing of one of his scripts.

A story about the unexpected friendship of two opposites. A tenderly script aimed and carefully written for its expectators. How within this relationship they both find the beauty of life. Can´t do nothing else but applaud to the very last scene that made me cry instantly.

Now type your own melodies....